18/07/2007 by GraemeHadwin.

For those who have travelled between buildings, or schools in the handheld project and have put in a new proxy server address to access another site’s network.  The new settings that are put in will revert to the original settings once the handheld is synchronised with the computer.  Once we have found out why, or discovered a way to stop this happening (if indeed you need/want it to stop) we will let you know!

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16/07/2007 by Fredsergeant.

Hey people who now have fancy new handheld computer thingies that have resulted in me doing no work for over a week.

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16/07/2007 by GraemeHadwin.

An issue arose at the handheld training at St Edward’s RC Primary on Friday afternoon.  The handhelds could not connect to the internet even though they were connected to the school’s network.  The solution to this problem is as follows; when configuring the network in settings (choosing which network needs to be accessed), make sure that ‘My network card connects to:’ work.  This is because the handheld needs to be linked to the proxy server in the school.  If there is a problem accessing the internet at home then this can be changed back to ‘My network card connects to:’ The Internet. This should work!

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16/07/2007 by graham.

If you want to send images from your pc to the handheld - they will probably be too large. There is a nifty free download that allows you to quickly re-size images on your pc before sending them to handheld - download from:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx (it’s about the 10th application down) - when you have this installed, a new option is added to the right-click menu over picture file icon on your pc - “Resize pictures”. Select this and you have a choice of sizes - although “small” will fit on the handheld screen - selecting “handheld pc” will give an acceptable image, and probably minimise memory problems. The “advanced” tab allows you to specify the oixel size of the image.

If you are using a Windows Vista machine  - Microsoft’s Image Resizer doesn’t work! An alternative can be downloaded from http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/image_resizer.php . This works in similar way (right-clicking over the image on you pc filer window) - but we haven’t played with it as much - so don’t know how stable it is : -> 

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13/07/2007 by GraemeHadwin.

Where is the best place to get E books for free?

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09/07/2007 by GrahamDean.

Could you list the main topics that you will be teaching during the autumn term - so that we can look out for resources for the handhelds (or even create them!)

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02/07/2007 by GrahamDean.

This will enable teachers participating in the process to compare notes with their experiences of using the devices. Apologies for the unfriendly url - but once you bookmark it, you won’t need to type it again.

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Hopefully you will find it useful.

Graham

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